How To Make Crab Cakes

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Here’s how to make crab cakes out of crab meat. These would be perfect little cakes if you were throwing a birthday party for a fish or a shark or a whale. Not such a great idea if the party is for a crab, but in that case you could just swap out the crab meat for drained canned tuna or salmon and make that little birthday-crab happier’n he’s ever been in his whole crabby little life.

If you want, you can add a tablespoon of pimientos or chopped red bell pepper for a color kick. Or you could use some minced onion or shallot instead of celery if you are one of those people I’ve heard about that hates celery for some reason. I don’t understand you, but I know you are out there.

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Homemade is always best. Homemade and from the heart is better than best. Day One: Our Son #3 planned to get up at dawn the next day to go crabbing with friends in the Chesapeake Bay. He had his trap and his chicken necks ready. I asked him to save some for me. Day Two: He was gone crabbing all the day. Day Three: I saw in the morning that he was snoring away in his bed. I went downstairs to get some breakfast. I opened the fridge to find a perfectly made crabcake. Not just made by our son, but made for me by him from a crab he’d caught himself. As i said above, better than best.

Hey Robert! You can make breadcrumbs by pulverizing some toast in a blender or food processor. Or use cracker crumbs. Can you find Panko breadcrumbs? They are a large, coarse Japanese breadcrumb that we get here.

These look amazing, I am going to be cooking crab cakes for the first time in a few weeks for my boyfriend’s birthday, and I am ubber nervous as I have never done it before, thanks for making it look so easy! He likes a bit of kick in his so I am substituting celery for jalapeno, was wondering if you think this will totally ruin the cake? I am using canned crab meat, thank you!

Hi Jessica!
Don’t be nervous, crab cakes are easy! If you want them spicy, you can definitely add some minced jalapeno. Unless your BF doesn’t like celery, I would keep the celery and add the peppers. You could also add several dashes of cayenne pepper, which goes really nicely with seafood.
Another way to add some heat is in the tartar sauce. I love making this tartar sauce recipe with a couple tablespoons of chopped pickled jalapeno instead of the pickles.

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